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I was just saying that i'm even mored worried based on the apparent success of the series right now. I mean its doing amazing, and for an author that had a series get canned already, what is he to suspect as to why the success is so great?

He's going to want to keep doing hwat is making it so popular right now. What is it that is making it so popular? comedy? plot? extreme fanservice? who knows. And I wonder what the author will think is doing it and do more of that.

Remember To-love-ru was not canceled due to rateings. It is very clear it ended due to Yabuki's personal issues at that time . As Chapter 24. of Bakuman pointed out it's placement in the polls were taken into consideration due to the trype of story it was. Basicly if it was canceled due to week rateings it never would have return even remotely as quickly as it did.

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Remember To-love-ru was not canceled due to rateings. It is very clear it ended due to Yabuki's personal issues at that time . As Chapter 24. of Bakuman pointed out it's placement in the polls were taken into consideration due to the trype of story it was. Basicly if it was canceled due to week rateings it never would have return even remotely as quickly as it did.

Actually it was cancelled due to ratings, it's constant low placement in the mid teens continued to fuel speculation of it's cancellation, and when series around it started getting the axe, it seemed like JUMP might have been planning to change directions, especially since the content of TLR didn't match the shounen demo, anyway it's all in the air because it easily could have been ratings and it could not have been. We;d have to hear it from the horses mouth to really get a better idea.

Godly colorings for last month's chapter just came out as well. Check danbooru or orenoimouto.

Sadly some clown added mosaics to Kotegawa's crotch in both pictures and now those are the versions being spread most widely, even on Japanese sites. So far, only one of the 2 new colorings has turned up uncensored. The 2nd one is still missing.

Actually it was cancelled due to ratings, it's constant low placement in the mid teens continued to fuel speculation of it's cancellation, and when series around it started getting the axe, it seemed like JUMP might have been planning to change directions, especially since the content of TLR didn't match the shounen demo, anyway it's all in the air because it easily could have been ratings and it could not have been. We;d have to hear it from the horses mouth to really get a better idea.

It wasn't ratings To love ru was doing fine and it's volume sales where better than fine Jumps offical word was the series was dropped due to personal reasons.

Sadly some clown added mosaics to Kotegawa's crotch in both pictures and now those are the versions being spread most widely, even on Japanese sites. So far, only one of the 2 new colorings has turned up uncensored. The 2nd one is still missing.

I know. I tried to search for the other one yesterday to no avail. It doesn't help that nobody seems to know for sure where he originally posts them. It's obviously not on 2ch since the ones that were posted in the Yui thread are censored. So it could be 2chan instead... the problem is that they're not as easy to find over there. Not to mention, the threads can expire quickly.

He should get a blog/site/pixiv/whatever. It'd be a shame for people to miss out on such glorious colorings.

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Let's... not get into this conversation. Please.
Let's just accept the fact that it's being rated rather well in the magazine now, what with the high rankings and frequent colour pages.

Yes, we've went over it billion times already. Nobody but Yabuki/Hasemi and Shueisha know the truth. There's no point arguing about it anymore. TLR's back and it's (apparently) doing well, so let's just rejoice.

I wasn't argueing I'm just saying that the "yabuki sensei was sick isn't the only theory and only those involved know the truth" is the only explanation, still I can't get used to the month long release schedule. I'm just hoping for some real development or progression in the story, and looking at it, it seems like this will be a plot oriented story which is props for us.

Turns out their mosaic, sorry guys, false alarm.

You can say what you want about yabuki, but as soon as TLR did end he was already serialized for Mayoi neko not one month later, so I'm gonna say that it's questionable, do I doubt what you say? No I'm inclined to beleive it but the change in venue, and the "cameo" tend to make me think that he wasn't finished with TLR but something made him stop. So i'll say I'm sort of convinced but if someone was to say TLR was cancelled I really wouldn't be able to refute their assertions.

The common consesus in the TLR threads is that, Yabuki had to quit because he can't be a full time mangaka for a weekly series and taking care of his little girl (she's three) at the same time (now that he has full custody).

Ataru was asking about how much TLR was Hasemi, Yabuki, and the editors... Well, according to the Manga Brain (a special section dedicated to interviews with a mangaka in WSJ), Yabuki usually discusses the story with Hasemi over the phone on Wednesdays, then spends half a day doing the preliminary draft on Fridays... Have another in-depth discussion with both the editor and Hasemi in the afternoon, and finish up the final product on Tuesday morning (Tuesday afternoon is his free time).

- There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- I forgot to mention that following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.

Nakamura Ine, the famous guy in the horse mask performing music on nico, has admitted on his blog that he had extramarital relations with Kashiwagi Shiho, the wife of ToLoveru artist Yabuki Kentarou. On his blog he apologizes deeply once more to Yabuki and also to all that have been affected by this.

Kashiwagi Shiho had started getting in touch with the musicians on nico douga and got to know Nakamura Ine among others, and she had collaborations with them by helping them draw the art for the music they post up (under the handle name of Ume).

Kashiwagi and Yabuki are apparently now currently divorced since early this year (the extramarital relations happened before the divorce) and Yabuki has the custodial rights to their 3 year old daughter.

The entire issue was spotted and dug up through mixi and there was a very long battle as 2ch posters tried to find more evidence and confront Nakamura and Kashiwagi. There was a lot of unconfirmed info so I hadnít posted about it till now.

There is still a lot about what happened between them, so interested parties that understand Japanese can read the wiki.

He had announced that he will be joining the Ouzoku Band but now heíll leave them instead, and heíll delete his mixi account, his blog, and all of his and Umeís videos from nico douga.

The common consesus in the TLR threads is that, Yabuki had to quit because he can't be a full time mangaka for a weekly series and taking care of his little girl (she's three) at the same time (now that he has full custody).

Ataru was asking about how much TLR was Hasemi, Yabuki, and the editors... Well, according to the Manga Brain (a special section dedicated to interviews with a mangaka in WSJ), Yabuki usually discusses the story with Hasemi over the phone on Wednesdays, then spends half a day doing the preliminary draft on Fridays... Have another in-depth discussion with both the editor and Hasemi in the afternoon, and finish up the final product on Tuesday morning (Tuesday afternoon is his free time).

- There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- I forgot to mention that following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.

Nakamura Ine, the famous guy in the horse mask performing music on nico, has admitted on his blog that he had extramarital relations with Kashiwagi Shiho, the wife of ToLoveru artist Yabuki Kentarou. On his blog he apologizes deeply once more to Yabuki and also to all that have been affected by this.

Kashiwagi Shiho had started getting in touch with the musicians on nico douga and got to know Nakamura Ine among others, and she had collaborations with them by helping them draw the art for the music they post up (under the handle name of Ume).

Kashiwagi and Yabuki are apparently now currently divorced since early this year (the extramarital relations happened before the divorce) and Yabuki has the custodial rights to their 3 year old daughter.

The entire issue was spotted and dug up through mixi and there was a very long battle as 2ch posters tried to find more evidence and confront Nakamura and Kashiwagi. There was a lot of unconfirmed info so I hadnít posted about it till now.

There is still a lot about what happened between them, so interested parties that understand Japanese can read the wiki.

He had announced that he will be joining the Ouzoku Band but now heíll leave them instead, and heíll delete his mixi account, his blog, and all of his and Umeís videos from nico douga.

kk seems legit, still TLR never really fit with JUMP in the long run especially with the series promoted as JUMPs flagships, (naruto, bleach, One piece) in the end it was the right decision from a personal standpoint and for a plot standpoint it was needed to avoid the paradox of successful series. Anyway I'm glad he's writing and it was pretty obvious in the shift of haruna's "role" that something did happen. Anyway the new chapter was alright, it's disappointing that the manga does use some cliche typical misunderstandings to continue to further this arc. What I would pay to see Rito get smacked with the motor bike/bicycle.

The common consesus in the TLR threads is that, Yabuki had to quit because he can't be a full time mangaka for a weekly series and taking care of his little girl (she's three) at the same time (now that he has full custody).

Ataru was asking about how much TLR was Hasemi, Yabuki, and the editors... Well, according to the Manga Brain (a special section dedicated to interviews with a mangaka in WSJ), Yabuki usually discusses the story with Hasemi over the phone on Wednesdays, then spends half a day doing the preliminary draft on Fridays... Have another in-depth discussion with both the editor and Hasemi in the afternoon, and finish up the final product on Tuesday morning (Tuesday afternoon is his free time).

- There is this person called Nakamura Ine who is quite famous on the Nico Nico website (a large Japanese online community somewhat like Youtube), who turned out to be a minor (last year in high school) and also insinuated that he has something going on with a Kashiwagi Shiho.

- Now this Shiho was the wife of Yabuki Kentaro, the author of To-Love-Ru. She met Yabuki when he was looking for assistants, seduced him and ended up becoming his wife and gave birth to a daughter.

- But she hardly did any house work, neglected her daughter, and spent most of her days in front of a computer spending time in Nico Nico etc.

- January 2009, when Yabuki was sick with flu and bedridden, she kidnapped her own daughter and disappeared, and it turned out that she left her daughter at her parents' place while she was doing this and that with Ine.

- February 2009, Yabuki 'begged' Shiho to return for the sake of their daughter, and Shiho did return to Tokyo, but few days later she dropped out once again with the girl, this time taking a notebook computer and Yabuki's credit cards. Yabuki later stopped the cards, but a large sum of money was already taken out.

- Yabuki looked for them everywhere, but to no avail. March 2009, Shiho demanded a divorce on the grounds of personality clash and a large chunk of Yabuki's assets, but when the evidence of her infidelity was discovered on her computer, she then changed her stance and demanded money in exchange for the custody right of the daughter.

- Realizing it would take over a year to settle things, Yabuki accepted her conditions and got the daughter back.

- Haruna Sairenji was based on Kashiwagi Shiho, and there is a reason why her role was reduced dramatically since volume 13, and Yui getting more prominent. And apparently Shiho has sued/demanded more money for the character of Haruna recently.

- A comment of Yabuki's while this was all happening:
[While I was working hard on a manga that was focused on taking young girls' panties off, another man was taking my wife's panties off.]

- I forgot to mention that following the dispute over Haruna's character right, Yabuki feared his daughter getting hurt by all the debacle, so he accepted Shiho's demand yet again and ended the series prematurely.

Nakamura Ine, the famous guy in the horse mask performing music on nico, has admitted on his blog that he had extramarital relations with Kashiwagi Shiho, the wife of ToLoveru artist Yabuki Kentarou. On his blog he apologizes deeply once more to Yabuki and also to all that have been affected by this.

Kashiwagi Shiho had started getting in touch with the musicians on nico douga and got to know Nakamura Ine among others, and she had collaborations with them by helping them draw the art for the music they post up (under the handle name of Ume).

Kashiwagi and Yabuki are apparently now currently divorced since early this year (the extramarital relations happened before the divorce) and Yabuki has the custodial rights to their 3 year old daughter.

The entire issue was spotted and dug up through mixi and there was a very long battle as 2ch posters tried to find more evidence and confront Nakamura and Kashiwagi. There was a lot of unconfirmed info so I hadnít posted about it till now.

There is still a lot about what happened between them, so interested parties that understand Japanese can read the wiki.

He had announced that he will be joining the Ouzoku Band but now heíll leave them instead, and heíll delete his mixi account, his blog, and all of his and Umeís videos from nico douga.

Yabuki as a single dad, reason why he works only for monthly issues.

This. Plus, it was obvious that it wasn't a legit cancellation due to the way that Seiusha babied Yabuki after the fact (Epilogue omake, oneshot, getting a new series less than two months after getting axed, etc). Jump NEVER treats axed mangaka's this good.

Is mayoi neko published by one of enix's subsidiaries? Also Hatsukoi LImited, Ane Doki are contrary to your "axed mangaka" treatment.

It was published in Jump SQ, owned be Seiusha. It's now in SQ19, a seasonal Seiusha magazine

The two cases aren't really similar since It took MK about a year to get serialized again. With Yabuki, it was less than 3 months, which has to be some sort of record.

Anyway, TLR getting axed due to low ToC ranking doesn't sound right to me. I mean, the ToC placement doesn't mean much when the tanks outsell most of the series that were allegedly more popular than it. Seems like a massive contradiction to me.

This. Plus, it was obvious that it wasn't a legit cancellation due to the way that Seiusha babied Yabuki after the fact (Epilogue omake, oneshot, getting a new series less than two months after getting axed, etc). Jump NEVER treats axed mangaka's this good.

Oh yea it was very clear that it wasn't Jump who pulled the plug on To Love-Ru but the author... choosing... to do so for personal reasons. And by choosing I mean he was backed into a corner by an awful situation. Any chance Jump had they let him release something, and wanted him to.

That being said I think this move, has worked out quite well from us as from a reader's standpoint. The year off and the monthly release is more then offset by the huge quality increase.

It was published in Jump SQ, owned be Seiusha. It's now in SQ19, a seasonal Seiusha magazine

The two cases aren't really similar since It took MK about a year to get serialized again. With Yabuki, it was less than 3 months, which has to be some sort of record.

Anyway, TLR getting axed due to low ToC ranking doesn't sound right to me. I mean, the ToC placement doesn't mean much when the tanks outsell most of the series that were allegedly more popular than it. Seems like a massive contradiction to me.

Not only that but it had been in the same place in the ToC for over 3 years and durring that time quite a few series that were higher in the ToC were axed. Also While the poll resualts do effect placement in the book the ToC is not the same as poll resualts other things effect it too like color pages, missing deadlines and the editors just desideing to place it in part of the book (Jaguar is an example of this it is always, barring color pages or a cover, the last in the book and has been since at least 2001)
Here is a link to an earlyer post about SJ ToC of mine relateing to To-Love-Ruhttp://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...64#post2515464

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I actually think Yabuki Kentaro should build a harem and show his b*tch Haruna-model who's the man. But I salute him for being a good dad to his daughter, giving up the anything, just to raise her by himself.
Maybe the reason why Celine transformed into a child, because Yabuki wanted his daughter to be in the manga, maybe Celine = his daughter.

Great chapter overall. I liked the scene with Rito & Momo just playing games and hanging out, mostly because it's a nice reminder that she doesn't try getting into his pants 24/7. Though I have to say, page 14 was pretty hot. And I couldn't help but notice that Momo emphasized "Today" in her statement, like she's usually not sleeping in her own room most nights anymore.

Heartwarming scene with Mikan & Yami as well. When you go back and compare their first interactions in the series, it really goes to show how much Mikan's affected her life. Also, Yami's smile at Rito was really bright but still very nice.

Probably the only thing I didn't like was Haruna's flying butt tackle, mostly because it feels like Darkness should have already graduated from needing to show such blatant, low-end fan service scenes.